Comment by pas

6 years ago

They just do the naive cost-benefit analysis: everyone uses it, successful people use these things, yet no bad things happen to them, why should I really care?

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oblio  6 years ago

And that behavior is rational. If I have 1 in 1 million chance of dying from a loose brick in a building falling on my head, the rational thing is to completely disregard this risk and live my life as usual, especially if I live in a city.

  • colejohnson66  6 years ago

    Unless it’s planes or terrorism. Why is that?

    • pas  6 years ago

      What? Everybody who had 2 functioning neurons left told (and continues to tell) everybody after each and every fucking "terror" attack, that ... it doesn't really matter, it's a so minuscule amount of violence and death compared to big systemic things (car crashes, obesity, air/noise/attention pollution, mental health problems, domestic abuse, natural aging associated "problems" like dementia and dying, real foreign policy - barriers to trade, corruption, oppressive regimes, concentration camps).

      Of course. Of course. Certain powers milked (and continues to milk) flashy terror attacks for political gains.

  • Enginerrrd  6 years ago

    Totally. A lot of people leave the back door to their house unlocked too. Where risk is low, the amount of resources people expend to mitigate that risk is also low, and generally should be.